Re: buster 10.1 Q
On Mon, 14 Oct, 2019 at 08:44:28 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:17:55PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Oct, 2019 at 12:53:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > What is the replacement for a graphical package manager since synaptic is
> > > deprecated? peferably something that can be run over an ssh -Y
> > > user@machine login.
> >
> > Synaptic is not deprecated in buster.
>
> It's more complicated than that. It was actually removed from buster
> during the testing phase, and then reintroduced after being modified
> to give an error message when started under Wayland, instead of simply
> failing to do anything at all.
[...]
I appreciate that the history is complicated, but the fact that synaptic
is not deprecated is simple enough. Moreover, Gene indicates that he
wishes to use synaptic with X forwarding, and is unlikely to be troubled
by its incompatibility with wayland.
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